simonmales

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by simonmales 10mo ago
Savage, but accurate. But I argue for these projects to have a long tail, they need revenue. A few have tried by selling hardware, but it never lands mainstream enough.
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by simonmales 10mo ago
Started on this with OpenELEC. Nowadays LibreELEC. Just feels the best that it's not a commercial product, rather a project built by cool people.
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by simonmales 10mo ago
I can't find references now, but Gnome or Ubuntu had a phase where they were booting the desktop with under 128MB of RAM. It would be great if LibreOffice had a spurt of speed-ups. Kind what the browser wars also competed fiercely abou
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by simonmales 11mo ago
I love the idea that these can live forever in apt/rpm repositories.
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by simonmales 11mo ago
This is a good reminder for myself to get some onion addresses for my sites and spread awareness of Tor. TIL that Onion-Location is a header, only new about the <meta> element. <meta http-equiv="onion-location" conten
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Show HN: Bitcoin Postcards – Send Memories with Bitcoin(bitcoinpostcards.net)
3 points by simonmales 11mo ago|0 comments
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by simonmales 1y ago
Even the blog too!
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by simonmales 1y ago
Pay to play.
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by simonmales 1y ago
That and the Internet Archive.
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by simonmales 1y ago
And it's a brilliant example of a PWA.
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by simonmales 1y ago
At least the planet download offers BitTorrent. https://planet.openstreetmap.org/
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by simonmales 1y ago
Partner is getting into photography and I don't have the stomach to purchase some software. I threw darktable and rawtherapee on the table but without technical grit you get nowhere really fast. It's no my wheelhouse so they are m
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by simonmales 2y ago
Many apps are shortcuts. They live rent free on people's home screens/launchers. Plenty could exist as a web app.
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by simonmales 2y ago
Well written, h/t.
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by simonmales 2y ago
This is a great resource. Should part of the official project.
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by simonmales 2y ago
For me, F-Droid is the apt of Android.
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by simonmales 2y ago
Ah shit, I blindly ordered the first Flint thinking OpenWRT would magically work. I just spotted an upstream PR in the works, so it should be supported eventually.
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by simonmales 2y ago
f-droid is a great way to find bloat free apps
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by simonmales 3y ago
Ease up, build toys instead. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27812192
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by simonmales 3y ago
Brilliant, I'm often on shitty WiFi and have a terminal opening pinging somewhere. This is what I have been locking for to troubleshoot.
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by simonmales 3y ago
We have a service that was often crawled by bots on cloud providers, luckily we can block AWS IPs without to much hassle.
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by simonmales 4y ago
Make it open in a separate window.
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by simonmales 4y ago
From my local cave clan: When it rains, no drains.
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by simonmales 4y ago
Trezor (cryptocurrency hardware wallet, and my employer) also supports U2F and FIDO. If you use Trezor for FIDO, you can re-create it using the same recovery/seed phrase to re-create your lost Trezor.
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by simonmales 4y ago
No, but the author doesn't make that claim either.
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by simonmales 4y ago
> On-chain games? I don't want to feel like I'm in a laggy casino, I just want to blast zombies with a rocket launcher and I can already do that perfectly fine. Haven't played any, but I am fan of crypto as a currency. I _
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by simonmales 4y ago
This is quite a well know pattern for flight ticket aggregators.
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by simonmales 4y ago
I heard of Excalidraw first. And a quick browse of GitHub leads to me believe that Excalidraw was first. I've only used Excalidraw, and it's my go-to. But I follow Steve on Twitter as it's fun to see what's he is excited
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by simonmales 4y ago
And there is still demand. Otherwise they wouldn't be still produced.
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by simonmales 4y ago
Thanks for the link. Have been toying with idea in my head for years.

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